yama no sei, sansei 山精 spirit of the mountain The wife of 猟師善助 the hunter Zensuke went to the mountain forest to gather firewood. Somehow she lost conscience. When she returned to herself and went home, she found herself pregnant. Eventually she gave birth to 岩八 Iwahachi. The same happened again a few years later and this time she gave birth to 喜八 Kichachi. All this happened because the Spirit of the Mountain and 山鬼 the Demon of the Mountain had an adventure with her. Both Iwahachi and Kihachi had bright red hair.

Sansei Zatsumi Kijin 山精雑魅鬼神 （さんせいざつみきじん） A kind of 精霊悪鬼 bad Oni with more knowledge and power than a human being, alive in the muontains, trees and other natural phenomenon. 『法華験家訓蒙』に述べてあるところによると、明治の初年頃、鎌倉地方で鉄道建設の際、古墳の移転工事を行った人夫が、あるいは発狂し、あるいは死者の姓名を名乗って、その墳墓を発掘したことを怒り、奇異の挙動をなしたのを、世間の人が見て、墓の亡魂のたたりであると恐怖して、祠を作り亡魂を祭祀したことがあったという。 『訓蒙』には、これは亡魂のたたりでなく、山精雑魅の類のしわざであると説いている。 その根拠として「仏説灌頂経』第七に、凡夫の塚塔には善神の守護無く、常に山精雑魅鬼神が付着し、飯食を求め、変化をなして世人に恐怖を与えるのを、凡夫が神や魂のしわざとなすのは、邪をもって正とし魅をもって神となす誤りであると説いてあることを引用している。 source : honkouji.com/glossary...

Yama Kijin 山鬼神 Sankijin Mountain Demon Deity Once the pious mother got lost in the mountains. Eventually they heard that she had become the wife on the Mountain Demon Deity from 太平山 Mount Taiheizan. Her friends tried to bring her back, but could not find her. Later she came back, telling them she also went to 出羽三山 the Three Mountains of Dewa.

Once upon a time, the area around 岩手山 Mount Iwatesan belonged to an Oni named 大猛丸 Odakemaru. In the year 797, Sakanoue no Tamuramaro was sent to drive him out, but he hid in the mist of the deep mountain and built his castle, 鬼ケ城 / 鬼ヶ城 Onigajo. Tamuramaro waited until the mist had dispersed, came to fight with him, drove him all the way to 八幡平 Hachimantai and finally killed him.

At the foot of Mount Zao there lived a sanki 山鬼 mountain Oni who grabbed humans and ate them. The Oni eventually turned to stone and the place is now called 鬼石原 Oniishihara Oniishihara Tōgatta onsen, Zaō-machi, Katta-gun, Miyagi

The demon of 岩倉山の鬼 Mount Iwakurayama At the hall 甲冑堂 in the village 東二町 Higashinicho there lived an Oni at Mount Iwakurayama who grbabed travellers, ground them in a mortar and ate them. This mortar has become a stone, named onisurusuishi 鬼臼石 / オニスルスイシ Oni Surusu Ishi

Uyamuya no Seki 有耶無耶関 / 有耶無耶の関 The Inamu Barrier now at the 笹谷峠 Sasaya Pass on the border to 山形 Yamagata and the Natori district.

Once upon a time a demon haunted this pass and caused harm to travellers. A raichoo 霊鳥 snow grouse would warn people, calling out 有耶 UYA (he is here). If the Demon was away, it would call out MUYA 無耶 (he is not here). The 若松観音 Wakamatsu Kannon at the side of Yamagata is called the 有耶の観音 Uya no Kannon. The 笹谷観音 Sasaya Kannon at the side of Miyagi is called 無耶の観音 Muya no Kannon. The snow grouse is said to be an incarnation of Kannon Bosatsu.

The demons of 一夜山 Ichiyasan "Mountain of one night" at the time of 天武天皇 Tenmu Tenno (c. 631-686) heard a rumor that their living place would become a new settlement. To prevent this, they began to plot. In one night (ichiya 一夜), to stop the road, they made a new mountain between the mountains 戸隠山Togakushiyama and 戸倉山 Tokurasan. This new mountain is now 1,561 m high.

A lot of salmon fish came up the river, but the local mountain demons caught them all with their bare hands and ate them. The villagers who head the demons at night became ill, spit blood and soon died.

Before the hatsu uma 初午 First Day of the Horse people put salt in the four corners of the yururi 圍爐裡 / ユルリ (irori 囲炉裏) open hearth。Then they throw mud snails on the roof. If they reach far to the other side, there will be no fire for the coming year. Tanishi are the messengers of Fudo Myo-O. If eaten, they will cure eye disease.

Once upon a time in the hamlet of Mokusho-uchi 杢少内 (Mukkyoji in local dialect ムッキョジ) in 西新殿 Nishiniidono there was a wooden statue of Fudo Myo-O お不動様 in the Fudo Hall on the hill. The villagers had great faith in the statue and came to pray and worship here every day with all kinds of wishes.

A story told by 長嶺トキ Nagamine Toki. After an operation for an artificial hip joint she was unconscious for 4 days. In the evening of the 4th day in the room for the nurses there appeared Fudo Myo-O in the left corner of the ceiling. In the middle appeared many 地蔵様 Jizo figures and in the right there was 観音様 Kannon sama leading a child. (After that vision she was healed.)

tenjin 天人 heavenly maiden A man named from the Miura clan named 三浦左近国清 Miura Sakon Kunikiyo lived in 太田村別所 Ota village 別所館 Besshonotate. He went to the Fudo Waterfall at 馬場村 Babamura to pray for a wife. That night Fudo appeared in his dream and told him, that in this world there was no wife to fit him. He should go to the pond at 五台山 Mount Godaisan where the tenjin 天人 heavenly maiden come to bath and snatch one of their hagoromo 羽衣 feather mantles. Kunikiyo did as he dreamt, got the mantle and went back home. Soon the maiden came to his home and wanted her mantle back, but eventually she stayed on and became his wife. They had two sons and one daughter. When the children had grown up, the maiden took her mantle, said good bye and went back to heaven. Kunikiyo was very sad and his daughter was even more sad. She eventually threw herself into the pond and died. Now there is even a stone memorial in her memory at the pond, 姫塚 Himezuka.

shinmeisama しんめい様 At the old family home of the 渡邊 Watanabe there was a 神明宮 Shinmei Shrine venerating the deity Shinmei Sama. Eventually there was no successor to the family line to care for the Shrine. So Shinmei Sama called on Fudo for help and sent an old blind man to continue the worship.

Two farmers were sleeping in the fields during lunchtime, when suddenly a large boulder came rolling down and stopped right beside them. "This must be a stone to venerate Kannon Bosatsu"! Then some specialists came from Aizu Wakamatsu and said it should be placed at the Waterfall of Kitamori 北森の滝 where Fudo Myo-O is venerated. So the villagers carried the stone near the waterfall, shounting "Kan man baran" all the way. カンマンバラン Kanmanbaran is the local name of the Fudo Myo-O. Kanmanboron, Kanman Boron カンマンボロン.

ryuu 竜 dragon Once it rained very very strong. A priest who had come along recited the sutras, then he left three コケラ（うろこ）fish scales and ascended to heaven. A statue of Fudo with these three scales is the main statue of the temple 天竜山法泉寺 Tenryuzan Hosen-Ji.